The Story of Sassi Punnu

Sassi Punnu

Sassi Punnu is one of the seven famous unfortunate sentiments of the Sindh and four of the most well known in Punjab. The other six are Umar Marvi, Momal Rano and Sohni Mahiwal, Laila Chanesar, Sorath Rai Diyach, Noori Jam Tamachi regularly known as Seven Sovereigns of Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai. Sassui Punnu was composed by the Sindhi and Sufi artist, Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai in (1689-1752).

Sassi

Sassi was the girl of the Ruler of Bhamboor (it is in Sindh whose remains should be visible today). Upon Sassi's introduction to the world, stargazers anticipated that she was a revile for the regal family's distinction. The Sovereign arranged that the kid be placed in a wooden box and tossed in the waterway Indus. The wooden box and the child inside it were discovered by a village washerman in Bhambour. The washerman accepted the youngster was a gift from God and brought her back home. As he had no offspring of his own, he chose to embrace her.

Punnu

Punnun Khan, the child of Ruler Mir Hoth Khan (Hoth, a renowned Baloch clan in Makran (Balochistan). Lord Hoth was child of Mir Jalal Khan primary Baloch pioneer and senior of Talpur, Skin, Lashari, Hoth, Khosa and Marri individuals of today) of Kicham (Kech).

Sassi and Punnu meet

At the point when Sassi turned into a little kid, she was pretty much as gorgeous as the pixies of paradise. Accounts of her excellence arrived at Punnu and he became frantic to meet Sassi. The attractive youthful Sovereign of Makran consequently made a trip to Bhambour. He sent his garments to Sassi's dad (a washerman) with the goal that he could get a brief look at Sassi. At the point when he visited the washerman's home, they experienced passionate feelings for from the outset. Sassi's dad was dampened, trusting that Sassi would wed a washerman and no other person. Sassi's dad requested that Punnu demonstrate that he truly deserved Sassi by finishing the assessment as a washerman. Punnu consented to demonstrate his adoration. While washing, he tore all the garments similar to, a ruler, he had never washed any garments. he in this manner bombed the arrangement. However, before he returned those garments, he concealed gold coins in the pockets of all the garments, trusting this would keep the residents calm. The stunt worked, and Sassi's dad consented to the marriage.

Punnu's siblings

Punnu's dad and siblings were against the his union with Sassi (Punnu being a ruler and she being a washerman's little girl), thus, for the good of their dad, Punnu's siblings ventured out to Bhambhoor. Punnu was initially threatened, but when he refused, they tried more devious tactics. Punnu was surprised to find that his brothers were in favor of his marriage. On the first night, they pretended to enjoy and be a part of the wedding festivities and made Punnu drink a variety of wines. At the point when he was inebriated they conveyed him on a camel's back and gotten back to their old neighborhood of Kech Makran.

The sweethearts meet their end

The following morning, when Sassi understood that she was cheated, she ended up being frantic with the despondency of division from her sweetheart and ran shoeless towards the town of Kich Makran. To arrive at it, she needed to cross miles of desert. Alone, she proceeded with her excursion until her feet were rankled and her lips were dry from crying "Punnu, Punnu!" The excursion was brimming with perilous risks, which lead to her destruction. Punnu's name was all the rage all through the excursion. She was parched, there she saw a shepherd emerging from a hovel. He gave her a water to drink. Seeing her extraordinary excellence, grimy obscene considerations came into his brain, and he attempted to drive himself on Sassi. Sassi took off and appealed to God to conceal her and when God paid attention to her requests, land shook and split and Sassi wound up covered in the valley of mountains. Punnu was in Makran when he woke up, and he couldn't stop running back to Bhambhoor. On the manner in which he called out "Sassi, Sassi!" to which the shepherd answered. The shepherd recounted to Punnu the entire story. Then Punnu additionally deplored a similar supplication, the land shook and split once more and he was likewise covered in a similar mountain valley as Sassi. The unbelievable grave actually exists in this valley. Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai sings this noteworthy story in his sufi verse to act as an illustration of everlasting adoration and association with Divine.